New Refrain at Kean U.: Just Saying No to Tenure

The university's president says he'll recommend denial for a majority of this year's candidates

Yana Paskova for The Chronicle

Dawood Farahi, president of Kean U., has told six of nine professors seeking tenure this year that he'll recommend that the board reject their bids. A faculty leader says the unusually high rejection rate is an acceleration of a trend toward undermining tenure.

Dawood Farahi, president of Kean U., has told six of nine professors seeking tenure this year that he'll recommend that the board reject their bids. A faculty leader says the unusually high rejection rate is an acceleration of a trend toward undermining tenure.

By Robin Wilson

Kean University's president will ask the institution's board
next month to reject two-thirds of the professors up for tenure
this year, further antagonizing a faculty that has been at odds
with the administration for years.

Kean's faculty union said this was the first time the president,
Dawood Y. Farahi, had recommended that a majority of those seeking
tenure—six of nine faculty members—be denied. All but one of those
professors had received positive votes from their